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Minutes - San Leandro City Council Meeting - October 3, 1994 Page - 3 - _PUBLIC COMMENTS (continued), Mayor Corbett said there is a cost involved in the program and no one could be found who would do it for free. Bob Taylor further explained the mandate for recycling. C. Howard Strawn, 2460 Marina Boulevard, said the recycling baskets are dirty and renters don't take care of them. He said the City doesn't want trailers, motor homes, or graffiti on the street, but now they will have recycling containers and garbage cans on the street. He said plastic bottles are worth 5 cents and cans are worth 15 cents, and now they are being given to the scavengers to collect. Council Member Myers explained, if Mr. Strawn has Handy Can service, he can get a label to put on his can to utilize it for the recycling program, which will reduce his costs by $13 per month. Mayor Corbett pointed out that with recycling he could also utilize a smaller garbage can, which would save an additional $3.00 per month. Mr. Strawn said he is also concerned regarding people scavenging from the recycling. Mayor Corbett said an anti-scavenging ordinance is on the Agenda. Council Member Kerr said he is going to continue to recycle as he does now. He noted he has gone to using a 20-gallon container and has found it very easy when using the other containers. He said San Leandro has one of the lowest fees for this service in the East Bay. Council Member Loeffler pointed out that, through the use of recycling, the annual spring cleanup, which costs about $120,000 per year, may cost less. He said garbage is big business today, and it costs $50 per ton just to dispose of it. D. Barbara Baack, 16148 Via Sonora, San Lorenzo, spoke regarding the tragic death of Jeannine Roulier. She said Ms. Roulier was a member of the National Federation for the Blind, of which Ms . Baack is the President, and was struck and killed crossing at a green light. She said October 15 is "White Cane Day, " and the meaning of the white cane and the rights of blind pedestrians must be publicized. She said the motor vehicle rule is that vehicles must come to a stop and not do anything else when a pedestrian is crossing. She said it is the responsibility of each driver to protect those in the crosswalk. She said Ms. Roulier was a shining example of careful travel . She spent 9 months at an orientation center for the blind in Albany and at the Guide Dogs for the Blind Center in San Rafael . She traveled with her dog regularly. She said there have been articles in the newspapers which may infer Ms. Roulier was doing something wrong, but she was crossing in the crosswalk, with the light, and she should have been